IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibf/ijmmre/v1y2008i1p1-22.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Mediating Effect of Informal Accountability for Others

Author

Listed:
  • M. Todd Royle
  • Wayne A. Hochwarter
  • Angela T. Hall

Abstract

This study is a systematic inquiry into the relationship between personal and organizational antecedents (i.e., self-regulation and embeddedness), informal accountability for others (IAFO), and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). The novel contribution that this paper attempts to make to the literature is showing that the relationships between embeddedness, self-regulation and OCBs are at least partially mediated by IAFO. We investigated these hypotheses using data collected across two different samples: an organizational sample of 105 employees from a physical fitness facility and the other an amalgam sample of 187 working adults. Results indicated that IAFO fully mediated the relationship between selfregulation and OCB and partially mediated the relationship between embeddedness and OCB in the organizational sample. Data from the amalgam sample suggested that the relationship between selfregulation and OCB also was fully mediated IAFO, and the embeddedness - OCB relationship partially mediated. Strengths, limitations, directions for future research, and practical implications are discussed.

Suggested Citation

  • M. Todd Royle & Wayne A. Hochwarter & Angela T. Hall, 2008. "The Mediating Effect of Informal Accountability for Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 1(1), pages 1-22.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:1:y:2008:i:1:p:1-22
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/ijmmre/ijmmr-v1n1-2008/IJMMR-V1N1-2008-1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Jay B. Barney & Mark H. Hansen, 1994. "Trustworthiness as a Source of Competitive Advantage," Strategic Management Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(S1), pages 175-190, December.
    2. Simonson, Itamar & Nowlis, Stephen M., 2000. "The Role of Explanations and Need for Uniqueness in Consumer Decision Making: Unconventional Choices Based on Reasons," Research Papers 1610, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
    3. Henry Kaiser, 1974. "An index of factorial simplicity," Psychometrika, Springer;The Psychometric Society, vol. 39(1), pages 31-36, March.
    4. Simonson, Itamar & Nowlis, Stephen M, 2000. "The Role of Explanations and Need for Uniqueness in Consumer Decision Making: Unconventional Choices Based on Reasons," Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Research Inc., vol. 27(1), pages 49-68, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. M. Todd Royle & Gavin Fox, 2011. "The Relationship Between Psychological Strain Self-Regulation, And Informal Accountability For Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(1), pages 1-18.
    2. M. Todd Royle & Angela T. Hall, 2012. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN McCLELLAND’S THEORY OF NEEDS, FEELING INDIVIDUALLY ACCOUNTABLE, AND INFORMAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OTHERS," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 5(1), pages 21-42.
    3. Vivian Chen, Chun-Hsi & Yuan, Mei-Ling & Cheng, Jen-Wei & Seifert, Roger, 2016. "Linking transformational leadership and core self-evaluation to job performance: The mediating role of felt accountability," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 35(C), pages 234-246.
    4. M. Todd Royle & Gavin Fox & Wayne A. Hochwarter, 2009. "The Relationships Between Select Situational And Dispositional Constructs And Informal Accountability For Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 2(1), pages 113-133.
    5. M. Todd Royle, 2013. "Embeddedness: The Nexus Of Learned Needs, Conscientiousness, And Informal Accountability For Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 6(1), pages 15-41.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. M. Todd Royle & Gavin Fox & Wayne A. Hochwarter, 2009. "The Relationships Between Select Situational And Dispositional Constructs And Informal Accountability For Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 2(1), pages 113-133.
    2. M. Todd Royle, 2013. "Embeddedness: The Nexus Of Learned Needs, Conscientiousness, And Informal Accountability For Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 6(1), pages 15-41.
    3. M. Todd Royle & Gavin Fox, 2011. "The Relationship Between Psychological Strain Self-Regulation, And Informal Accountability For Others," International Journal of Management and Marketing Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(1), pages 1-18.
    4. repec:cup:judgdm:v:8:y:2013:i:2:p:136-149 is not listed on IDEAS
    5. Lokesh Jasrai, 2014. "Measuring Mobile Telecom Service Innovativeness Among Youth," Paradigm, , vol. 18(1), pages 103-116, June.
    6. Powel Maxwell Worimegbe & Agbaje Ifedayo, 2020. "Corporate Rebranding And Customers Retention. A Study Of Selected Telecommunication Firm In Nigeria," Cactus - The tourism journal for research, education, culture and soul, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, vol. 2(1), pages 17-25.
    7. Hristina Nikolova & Cait Lamberton, 2016. "Men and the Middle: Gender Differences in Dyadic Compromise Effects," Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Research Inc., vol. 43(3), pages 355-371.
    8. Henkel, Laura & Toporowski, Waldemar, 2021. "Hurry up! The effect of pop-up stores’ ephemerality on consumers’ intention to visit," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
    9. Wang, Feng & Liu, Xuefeng & Fang, Eric (Er), 2015. "User Reviews Variance, Critic Reviews Variance, and Product Sales: An Exploration of Customer Breadth and Depth Effects," Journal of Retailing, Elsevier, vol. 91(3), pages 372-389.
    10. Simonson, Itamar, 2007. "Will I Like A "Medium" Pillow? Another Look At Constructed And Inherent Preferences," Research Papers 1977r1, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.
    11. Dörnyei, Krisztina Rita & Lunardo, Renaud, 2021. "When limited edition packages backfire: The role of emotional value, typicality and need for uniqueness," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 233-243.
    12. Claire I. Tsai & Min Zhao & Dilip Soman, 2022. "Salient knowledge that others are also evaluating reduces judgment extremity," Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Springer, vol. 50(2), pages 366-387, March.
    13. repec:cup:judgdm:v:6:y:2011:i:4:p:307-313 is not listed on IDEAS
    14. Haris Krijestorac & Rajiv Garg & Prabhudev Konana, 2021. "Decisions Under the Illusion of Objectivity: Digital Embeddedness and B2B Purchasing," Production and Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society, vol. 30(7), pages 2232-2251, July.
    15. Sahi, Gurjeet Kaur & Devi, Rita & Gupta, Mahesh C. & Cheng, T.C.E., 2022. "Assessing co-creation based competitive advantage through consumers’ need for differentiation," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).
    16. Christian Hildebrand & Gerald Häubl & Andreas Herrmann & Jan R. Landwehr, 2013. "When Social Media Can Be Bad for You: Community Feedback Stifles Consumer Creativity and Reduces Satisfaction with Self-Designed Products," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 24(1), pages 14-29, March.
    17. Alexander Dilger & Thomas Gehrig & Marko Sarstedt, 2019. "(Ir)Rationality of decisions in business research and practice: introduction to the special issue," Business Research, Springer;German Academic Association for Business Research, vol. 12(1), pages 1-7, April.
    18. Kim, Aekyoung & Briley, Donnel, 2020. "Finding the self in chance events," International Journal of Research in Marketing, Elsevier, vol. 37(4), pages 853-867.
    19. Raphael Thomadsen & Robert P. Rooderkerk & On Amir & Neeraj Arora & Bryan Bollinger & Karsten Hansen & Leslie John & Wendy Liu & Aner Sela & Vishal Singh & K. Sudhir & Wendy Wood, 2018. "How Context Affects Choice," Customer Needs and Solutions, Springer;Institute for Sustainable Innovation and Growth (iSIG), vol. 5(1), pages 3-14, March.
    20. Yan, Huan & Chang, En-Chung & Chou, Ting-Jui & Tang, Xiaofei, 2015. "The over-categorization effect: How the number of categorizations influences shoppers' perceptions of variety and satisfaction," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 68(3), pages 631-638.
    21. Sohn, Yong Seok & Ko, Man Ting, 2021. "The impact of planned vs. unplanned purchases on subsequent purchase decision making in sequential buying situations," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
    22. Nikolaus Franke & Martin Schreier, 2008. "Product uniqueness as a driver of customer utility in mass customization," Marketing Letters, Springer, vol. 19(2), pages 93-107, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    embeddedness; informal accountability for others; organizational citizenship behavior;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibf:ijmmre:v:1:y:2008:i:1:p:1-22. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Mercedes Jalbert (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.